In thoery you could use the metaball capture to mimick what you do in a
standard capture - ie one metaball region per bone and then add more
complex muscles on top if you want. I think this area just needs more
prerolled assets set up so people don't have to start from scratch.
Hopefully for H9 that is what sesi is planning.
Si
The only thing I found problematic with the metaball and muscle capture
systems is that I wasn't able to just put in a couple of muscles on top
of a rig that was done in the standard way. It was kinda all or nothing.
Very sweet but a bit difficult to hack up. I haven't played with it in a
little while now though..
Louis
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Hey Group,
We've been using houdini for Rigging our characters for the past 2.5 years.
Houdini has some amazing tools, but It seems that I keep running in to the
same problem, which seems essential in working with weights.
I'm looking for a way to hold bone weights.
For example:
If you have 4 bones that you need to weight a single point to. I would
like to lock two of the bones weightings for that point so I'm only
transfering the remaining weights between the other two bones.
This Is extremely helpful, almost a must in weighting in any program.
Has anybody overcome this problem? Is the solution in Houdini 9? Is it
possible to add this feature in upcoming releases?
-Mark

HI ....
I was checking the ode solver plugin for houdini. It seems to be fast.
But I think it doesn't support custom collision geometry. I haven't used ODE in my code,
so would like to know, is it possible to add this feature in the code easily.
I saw some example code on net, where custom geometry was defined in a C file.
How to convert a BGEO or OBJ file to such format.
Waiting for ur reply...
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Hi
How would it be possible to detect point,edges or primitives of a surface
intersecting with itself and group them?
For two different geometries its easy but for this one I am stuck?
thanks
z
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You might be interested to know that hcpio runs fine on windows now
without any hackery. We had to switch that line in the script to get it
to work.
Si
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Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] hip autopsy
No charge - but I'll be over there in a few weeks, so a beer would come
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Joe Barrow wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
> and thank you Mr Zerouni.
> hpdiff did the job nicely
>
> jb
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:sidefx-houdini-list-bounces at sidefx.com]On Behalf Of Louis
> Dunlevy
> Sent: 12 June 2007 11:50
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> Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] hip autopsy
>
>
> have you tried playing with hcpio?
>
> Usage: hcpio [-iotv] [-I file] [-O file]
> This application provides a limited subset of the cpio command so that
> NT users can extract and collapse HIP files The program is used by
> cpio_collapse and cpio_expand.
>
> you could maybe run rsync on the results
>
> Joe Barrow wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Anybody know of a way to compare two .hip files, ie. to see which
>> networks are contained in one but not the other?
>> I'm kind of thinking you could script them out into some kind of
readable txt file and then compare them, how would you do this, and is
there a less faffy way..
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> jb
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Sent: 14 June 2007 05:01
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Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] hip autopsy
No charge - but I'll be over there in a few weeks, so a beer would come
in handy!
Joe Barrow wrote:
> Thanks guys,
>
> and thank you Mr Zerouni.
> hpdiff did the job nicely
>
> jb
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:sidefx-houdini-list-bounces at sidefx.com]On Behalf Of Louis
> Dunlevy
> Sent: 12 June 2007 11:50
> To: sidefx-houdini-list at sidefx.com
> Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] hip autopsy
>
>
> have you tried playing with hcpio?
>
> Usage: hcpio [-iotv] [-I file] [-O file]
> This application provides a limited subset of the cpio
> command so that NT users can extract and collapse HIP files
> The program is used by cpio_collapse and cpio_expand.
>
> you could maybe run rsync on the results
>
> Joe Barrow wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Anybody know of a way to compare two .hip files, ie. to see which networks are contained in one but not the other?
>> I'm kind of thinking you could script them out into some kind of readable txt file and then compare them, how would you do this, and is there a less faffy way..
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> jb
>> ---------------
>> Joe Barrow
>> Lead Artist
>> Primal Pictures Ltd
>>
>>
>>
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Thanks guys,
and thank you Mr Zerouni.
hpdiff did the job nicely
jb
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[mailto:sidefx-houdini-list-bounces at sidefx.com]On Behalf Of Louis
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Sent: 12 June 2007 11:50
To: sidefx-houdini-list at sidefx.com
Subject: Re: [Sidefx-houdini-list] hip autopsy
have you tried playing with hcpio?
Usage: hcpio [-iotv] [-I file] [-O file]
This application provides a limited subset of the cpio
command so that NT users can extract and collapse HIP files
The program is used by cpio_collapse and cpio_expand.
you could maybe run rsync on the results
Joe Barrow wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Anybody know of a way to compare two .hip files, ie. to see which networks are contained in one but not the other?
> I'm kind of thinking you could script them out into some kind of readable txt file and then compare them, how would you do this, and is there a less faffy way..
>
> cheers
>
> jb
> ---------------
> Joe Barrow
> Lead Artist
> Primal Pictures Ltd
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
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